Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhoever controls work and wages, controls morals.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIf a man’s public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYCautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations – can never effect a reform.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhy should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWhen a man says to me, ‘Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,’ then I shall say, ‘I am yours truly’; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTo think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYWe need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman’s own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYI don’t want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYIndependence is happiness.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYThe only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
SUSAN B. ANTHONYTo no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom.
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